William H. Wadsworth

William H. Wadsworth

William Henry Wadsworth (born July 4, 1821 in Maysville , Kentucky , †  April 2, 1893 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1861 and 1865 and again between 1885 and 1887 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Wadsworth attended both public and private schools. He then studied until 1841 at Augusta College in Bracken County . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1844, he began to work in Maysville in this profession. At the same time he began a political career. Between 1853 and 1856 he was a member of the Kentucky Senate . In the presidential election of 1860 he was elector for the Constitutional Union Party .

In the congressional election of 1860 he was elected as a unionist in the ninth constituency of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Laban T. Moore on March 4, 1861 . After a re-election in 1862, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1865 . These were shaped by the events of the civil war . At the same time, Wadsworth took an active part in the war as a colonel in the Union Army, at least at times. He was on the staff of General Nelson .

In 1864, Wadsworth declined to run for Congress. In 1869 he was sent to Mexico as a negotiator by President Ulysses S. Grant . There he should participate in the processing of mutual claims. During this time Wadsworth became a member of the Republican Party . In the elections of 1884 he was re-elected as their candidate in the ninth district of Kentucky in Congress. There he replaced William Wirt Culbertson on March 4, 1885 . Since he was no longer running in 1886, he could only spend one more term in the US House of Representatives until March 3, 1887.

After leaving Congress, Wadsworth practiced law again. He died on April 2, 1893 in his native Maysville.

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• William H. Wadsworth in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)